AUGUST 2024 ENERGY REPORT
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AUGUST ENERGY REPORT: Self worth & service
By Rebecca Conran CHHC
This month Venus is transiting overtime behind the scenes to get us to approach life in a much more down to earth, pragmatic and service oriented way. Moving away from the pitfalls of our past experiences, into a hopeful new chapter. We each have masculine and feminine energies within. Our feminine qualities of creating, feeling, being, receiving are often steamrolled by our internalized toxic masculinity which seeks to gratify itself rather than serve. Divine masculine energy is of service to our emotions and creativity. It wants to be helpful, and provide the very necessary caregiving inwardly that the divine feminine needs. This month is a special time when we are called to focus on regulating these energies within. We are invited to create real self-worth from a place of balance and respect for oneself over outer approval.
AUG 4: NEW MOON LEO + MERCURY STATIONS RETROGRADE
Leo Season has been connecting us with our passion, enthusiasm and creativity - and on the flip side, a lack there-of! Some of us may feel we are living in groundhog day at the moment, it’s not terrible, nothing bad is necessarily happening to us directly, but it’s certainly difficult to feel excited about our goals or projects as we continue in a holding pattern of uncertainty. This period is unearthing what is stuck so that our garden can grow anew. Leo connects us to our heart and courage and we mustn’t forget that we have gifts to offer this world vibrationally and we must give ourselves permission to use and share them. Life might feel like a slog right now, but there is much beauty and love to be shared regardless.
This New Moon is a great time to:
Be unequivocally yourself, follow the impulse to be genuine
Use your voice to express yourself, the good, the bad and the ugly
Make time for play, fan the flames of your creativity
Go on an adventure, explore new arenas
Be a generous leader
Embrace passionate love and friendship
Open your heart! Be more loving, in word and action
It might not feel like it, but Mercury Retrograde beginning in Virgo is here to help too. Virgo season is approaching, and this is a very detail oriented and realistic sign that helps us to temper our extremes and focus on the practical tasks ahead. Virgo season always helps us with our duties, like properly taking care of our bodies. Virgo generates lots of useful and helpful ideas. This is great energy for managing your finances, setting small goals, cleaning house etc. This review period begins with a focus on that, before it moves back into Mercury in Leo.
The degree of a transit for me holds the theme, and the theme of this Mercury RX is to stop living in fear of recreating past negative experiences which hinder you from choosing with optimism in each present moment. We each have had bad things that have happened to us, it’s okay to be cautious, but where does that caution stop us from truly living? Where does it make us more focused on not recreating the past, than living open heartedly?
Virgo enters its shadow when it becomes perfectionist, negative and overly skeptical. Personally, I believe in being a skeptic, I don’t think it's all bad. My faith in life was born from roots in skepticism, but at some point we also need to be aware of the subtle lines of closed mindedness. Be prepared to change your mind, your beliefs and how you are perceiving your experience now. Tempering extremes in criticism when you feel let down or like you have let yourself down. Everyone is doing their best from their level of perception - including you.
AUG 5: VENUS ENTERS VIRGO
When Venus, the planet of love, romance and values is in Virgo, our love language becomes one of the acts of service. This placement loves a fixer upper, and shows love by helping. Virgo rules all things health and hygiene so this is a great time to kick start habits and behaviors that serve wellness. Venus in Virgo will remind us for the next month that practicality can be sexy too. Get your finances in order, get your home organized, roll up your sleeves and do the dishes so to speak. Perhaps you feel called to participate in some way in helping others, or being of service. Love isn’t just in the dramatic or gooey aspects, it’s also being considerate to the day to day minutiae of one another. The next few weeks, we will make practical care a priority.
AUG 8: MERCURY CONJUNCT VENUS BOTH IN VIRGO
When two planets are conjunct, they create a new super planet. They draw on each other's strengths, but can also exacerbate one anothers shadows. In any case, it means there's a whole lot of THAT energy going on. Mercury, the mind, thoughts, perceptions, communications working alongside how we give and receive love and what we value. This degree is about how we ‘fit in’, and the lengths we might go to attain approval from conventional avenues at the expense of our own authenticity. The world doesn’t know how to accept the genius, the maverick, the mad scientist, so we dull ourselves down to make ourselves palatable to the world. So the advice here? Don’t do it! Don’t sacrifice your life-force to be one of the crowd. Be your own wonderful weird self, and others will soon follow suit.
AUG 14: MARS CONJUNCT JUPITER BOTH IN GEMINI
Mars, anger, energy, impulse - working alongside our spiritual expansion. Jupiter is an exuberant planet, its optimism can soften the intensity of Mars, but the combination of these two can also blow things out of proportion. Finding temperance will be important today as well as disengaging from self-righteous arguments or lose/lose debates. This transit is all about mental metamorphosis. The head is doing all of the processing right now, our aggression, our motivation and our spirituality are all being intellectualized and hopefully, wisdom is being solidified. We are being asked to mature, and our behaviors are a reflection of our spiritual maturity. Are there ways you express your energy that need to be leveled up? Today there is energy to make healthy adjustments.
AUG 19: FULL MOON AQUARIUS
This full moon rules our friendships, business contacts, all things community. As a point of release, we are realizing the types of community that don't work for us. Are your friends and lovers growing with you? Are they growing at all? If the people you associate with don’t help you to shine your best self or match the values you have today, you’ll feel that you need to move on today. This applies to business and work related connections too.
The full moon in Aquarius also will highlight all of those places where we don’t feel emotionally free. If you’ve made someone or something your higher power, if someone or something else holds the keys to your self worth, you’ll want independence from that today. Don’t let your loyalties (Sun in Leo) keep you tied to sinking ships. Because we are also in our Mercury RX journey, these endings may also come with some emotional communications.
AUG 23: SUN ENTERS VIRGO
The tone of our collective being is now coming into alignment with the tone of the collective mind. The above advice regarding Virgo counts here too.With this transit, we invite in the energy of service, intelligence and helpfulness as imperative to the collective vitality. This is a great time to work on improving your physical health. Virgo season says, Okay, summer is fun and all, but let's get organized, let’s eat better, let's focus on better habits. Use this energy to cross tasks off lists, but be aware of overloading yourself or expecting too much. Find that life/work balance that gives equal time to all your priorities. Virgo can exacerbate neurosis, so this next month may be a time when you get some therapy or healing work booked in. We all need some support sometimes, and now is a good time to get down to brass tacks.
AUG 28: MERCURY STATIONS DIRECT
What did you learn about your communication style, internally and externally these last three weeks? How has your internal dialogue shifted? What changed in the way you communicate with others? What was revealed to you? Mercury now turns to forward motion again, going back over the degrees of this past retrograde - there is more to be revealed! We can have less miscommunication with others now, and think and express ourselves more clearly.
The degree this transit shifts back directly in Leo asks us to be a big boisterous beacon of light. It asks us to express our love with intensity. Don’t pick and choose who is worthy of your love and light, shine it all around with generosity, there is more than enough. Let your love be so enduring that people who cannot handle your beauty naturally just fade into the background until they are ready to receive such gifts.
AUG 29: VENUS ENTERS LIBRA
Venus rules Libra, so Libra is coming home. Venus is what our collective is working on right now to feel loved, lovable and to be loving. During this transit, working with the positive traits of Libra will bring satisfaction, and experiencing the shadow elements will bring up self worth issues and differences in values.
In Libra we need diplomacy, fairness and harmony in order to feel comfortable. We value communication more, and need to work through things on the intellectual level. This is a good time to communicate our needs with tact and kindness. This is a time for greater depth in our artistry. In general, it’s also a social time where we should focus on showing affection, especially through our words. This is the time to focus on partnerships of all kinds.
The shadow side of Libra can be people pleasing, indecision, superficiality, idealization and self indulgence. There can be issues here with not listening to our emotional intuitive senses, by instead valuing what’s ‘good on paper’. This transit could also amplify some of Neptunes' (currently in the last degree of Pisces) more negative traits, seeing things as we want them to be, not as they are, and over romanticizing situations where we need to be realistic. Libra’s darker side can also run extremes in gossip and judgment. We are here to love one another, to access deep compassion and empathy. If how we hold one another accountable doesn’t include that at our core, it’s just a bunch of self righteous crap.
Sometimes when we love others we allow them to cross lines that don’t serve either of us. Love that doesn’t honor our boundaries or those of others is not loving. Love that is co-dependent is addiction not loving. We cannot experience our own wholeness through others, and the energy of this transit may motivate us to act in ways that protect our self esteem and self worth from inappropriate ties that bind. Venus in Libra says we want to connect with others in harmony, we want to create peace in our relationships but not at the cost of self care. Today you may experience a realignment of what works best for your self worth in relationships.
Each energy season touches us in a unique area of our lives. We each have every zodiac sign somewhere in our personal astrology. This report looks at the collective themes or “mundane astrology” that will mark this period. If you are interested in learning more about your own astrology, a one-on-one session may be for you.
REBECCA CONRAN CHHC is a Life Coach, Astrologer & Energy Healing Practitioner known for her practical approach to mysticism.